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Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Logo: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Vectorization: Pdhadam, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Audiovisual archive and museum in Hilversum

The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, NIBG), founded as Dutch Audiovisual Archive (Dutch: Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief, NAA) is an archive centre and museum located in Hilversum, Netherlands. It is the business archive of the Dutch public broadcasting system as well as a cultural heritage institute for researchers and the public.2 Its revenue was €31 million in 2017.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2006Founded1

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Photo: Husky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision (Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, NIBG), founded as Dutch Audiovisual Archive (Dutch: Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief, NAA) is an archive centre and museum located in Hilversum, Netherlands. It is the business archive of the Dutch public broadcasting system as well as a cultural heritage institute for researchers and the public. The Museum voor Communicatie merged with the institute in 2019, rebadged as Beeld en Geluid Den Haag, and in 2022 Muziekweb, previously based in Rotterdam, also merged with the NIBG.2

Corporate structure

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Hilversum
    • Sound and Vision The Hague Subsidiary · The Hague
    • WikiProject Schatkamer TV programs and their cast Subsidiary
    • game-catalogus Beeld & Geluid Owned

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • game-catalogus Beeld & Geluid

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The history of the institute goes back to 1919, with the foundation of the one of its precursors, Nederlandsch Centraal Filmarchief. The institute was founded in 1997 as the Dutch Audiovisual Archive (Dutch: Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief, NAA), and adopting its current name in 2002.

In 2019, the Museum voor Communicatie, established in The Hague in 1929, merged with Sound and Vision. The museum has been renamed as Beeld en Geluid Den Haag.

On 1 January 2022, Muziekweb was merged into Sound and Vision. Muziekweb was previously affiliated with the Central Library of Rotterdam. It has been described as "Europe's largest music collection".

From Wikipedia’s article on Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Sound and Vision is an experienced partner in European-funded research projects. These include or have included: P2P-Fusion, MultiMatch, PrestoSpace, VIDI-Video, LiWA Living Web Archives (Research Project), Communia, Video Active (European Research Project) and the streaming mobile app Radio Garden, which gives listeners access to radio stations worldwide.

From Wikipedia’s article on Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

  • Sound and Vision The Hague
  • WikiProject Schatkamer TV programs and their cast

Also owns

  • game-catalogus Beeld & Geluid

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Press Museum1

Revenue over time

As stated on Wikidata, in the currency reported.

Revenue

  • 201731.0M EUR1

Timeline

  1. 2006Founded Founded1

Sources

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